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Five years after 9/11, it's easy to find partisan divisions. But here's an issue we should be able to agree on: Docudramas--the portrayal of real events and people by actors--are a poor way to teach children and adults history. It's especially iffy to take dramatic license in telling the story of events in which many of the principal players are still living, such as 9/11 or President Reagan's administration. Just ask ABC. Last night, it aired the first part of a six-hour miniseries, "The Path to 9/11." Sandy Berger, who served as President Clinton's national security adviser, bitterly complained about...

<p>She didn't twist my arm, but Mom convinced me to see Michael Moore's new movie.</p> <p>I'd told her there was no way I'd spend my hard-earned money on his propaganda!</p> <p>Mom – a dyed-in-the-wool FDR Democrat – knows my politics. When she learned I'd not seen the movie, she had a cause: get me to attend with her and a crowd of her Democrat club buddies. In fact, her local theatre booked the movie because Mom touted it to them.</p>

Why I made that speech Something had to be said at the Oscars about the war. Michael Moore explains why he was the one to say it. [snip] We are continually bombarded with one fictitious story after another from the Bush White House. And that is why it is important that filmmakers make non-fiction, so that all the little lies can be exposed and the public informed. An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way to end up with little or no democracy at all. [snip]

In one of the most loathsome examples of boorish public behavior, film director Michael Moore’s Oscar acceptance rant – perfectly captured by his unwashed, ungroomed appearance – went beyond all bounds of decency and civility, and spiraled downward into what can only be described as an infantile tantrum. Mired in the lonely delusions of those reliving the great liberal loss of the year 2000, Moore castigated President Bush as a “fictitious” commander in chief, winning by “fictitious” election results, and sending the nation into war for “fictitious” reasons, as vouchsafed by such leaders as the pope, Bill Maher and the...